Zhang, Yuan
Cifuentes, Manuel
Gao, Xiang
Amaral, Gina
Tucker, Katherine L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01 AG027087, P01 AG023394, P50 HL105185)
Article History
Accepted: 18 July 2016
First Online: 23 July 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study (BPRHS) and the Boston Puerto Rican Osteoporosis Study (BPROS) were approved by the Institutional Review Boards at Tufts Medical Center and Northeastern University (IRB #6629, #6763, #10-02-22). The current analysis was further approved by the University of Massachusetts Lowell Institutional Review Board (IRB #13-109). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study (BPRHS) and the Boston Puerto Rican Osteoporosis Study (BPROS).